[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Update docs and TODO for the protocol refactoring.

Eric S. Raymond gitlab at mg.gitlab.com
Thu Sep 29 21:04:59 UTC 2016


Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
1f41e1b4 by Eric S. Raymond at 2016-09-29T17:04:19-04:00
Update docs and TODO for the protocol refactoring.

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2 changed files:

- devel/TODO
- docs/index.txt


Changes:

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devel/TODO
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--- a/devel/TODO
+++ b/devel/TODO
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@
 
 === Code ===
 
-* Land TESTFRAME.
-
-* Land Daniel's protocol-machine refactoring.
+* Test broadcast and symmetric modes; either fix them or remove them.
 
 * Land Daniel's redesign of the restriction language.
 


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docs/index.txt
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--- a/docs/index.txt
+++ b/docs/index.txt
@@ -116,10 +116,14 @@ few will be user-visible.
   recent versions of NTP Classic, and if not broken would have been at
   high risk for bugs that would enable DoS vulnerabilities.
 
+* Interleave mode has been removed.  It didn't work correctly (there
+  was an implementation error in the timestamp handling), so no point
+  in allowing it to increase attack surface.
+
 * The code has been systematically hardened, with unsafe string
   copy and formatting functions replaced by safe (bounded) ones.
 
-* In toto, more than 60% of the NTP Classic code has been outright
+* In toto, more than 65% of the NTP Classic code has been outright
   removed, with less than 5% new code added. This is a dramatic
   reduction in attack surface.
 



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